What should I do if my baby's head is red and swollen?

In daily life, children's genitals will slowly grow along with their bodies. During the period of their growth and development, parents need to pay more attention to their children and their physical health. Redness and swelling of the foreskin of the baby's genitals is also a relatively common phenomenon. This may be caused by inflammation. If it is not absorbed in time due to contact with the outside, it can easily lead to redness of the boy's genitals.

This situation is caused by the foreskin of the penis being too long and phimosis leading to the accumulation of smegma, which causes bacterial infection and inflammation of the glans and foreskin. Usually, it can be cured by washing with clean water and applying some anti-infection ointment.

Precautions for newborn male baby's genital care

1. The water temperature should be appropriate

The water temperature when bathing the baby should be controlled at 38-40 degrees Celsius. This not only protects the baby's skin from scalding by hot water, but also protects the scrotum from scalding.

Moms and dads will find that when the weather is very hot or the baby is wearing a hot diaper, the baby's scrotum will be soft, like a balloon skin, and the small testicles inside will be obviously round and bulging. This is because when heated, the smooth muscles of the scrotal wall reflexively relax, and they relax to protect themselves and dissipate heat. If it is cold, the scrotum will shrink into a ball to maintain the necessary body temperature. Therefore, when taking a bath, you must control the water temperature. At the same time, you need to flush after each bowel movement.

The baby's penis is covered with tendons and fibrous tissue and is exposed outside the body, making it very fragile. When bathing, new parents may easily squeeze or pinch these parts of the baby's body due to nervousness or panic, so special attention should be paid.

3. Cleaning areas with rich wrinkles

Gently lift your baby's penis and gently clean the base with a piece of soft gauze. Then clean the baby's scrotum, which has many wrinkles and is more likely to hide sweat and dirt. The area below the scrotum is also where sweat and dirt can easily hide, including the area near the groin, so pay special attention to wiping it.

4. Wear loose and breathable diapers and pants

Don't wrap your baby boy's perineum too tightly. If you don't use diapers for your baby, after he urinates, it is best to wipe the urine with a clean, lint-free tissue to keep the area dry.

There is no need to deliberately clean the foreskin before the baby is one year old, because the baby's foreskin and glans are still grown together at this time, and turning over the tender foreskin too early will hurt the baby's genitals.

After one year old, it should be cleaned every few days, but only when the baby is emotionally stable. When cleaning, the mother uses the thumb of her right hand

Gently pinch the middle part of the penis with your index finger and index finger, gently push the foreskin back toward the child's abdominal wall, so that the glans and coronal sulcus are completely exposed, and then gently wash it with warm water. After washing, be sure to restore the foreskin to its original position.